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Moved to Roybott.com

Roybott — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:49:48 +0000

I’ve decided to start blogging a bit more again and have also decided to do the blogging on my new website at www.Roybott.com.

This blog will remain here as an archive but will not be updated anymore. My plan is to change Roy.Herrod.co.uk to be a more formal, personal and simple CV style page rather than one of my primary places on the web.

Bye bye!

Moved to Twitter for now…

Roybott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:10:15 +0000

It’s been a while since I last posted on here, partly due to being busy with work but mainly due to a mixture of lazyness (its takes alot of effort to write a blog post ) and having a lack of anything really interesting to write about/interesting enough to get anyone to read it.

I have however started a Twitter account and regularly tweet about random links I find and other interesting stuff. I dont know why exactly but I much prefer the restriction of just 140 characters per post/tweet as opposed to the ‘unlimited’ space for a blog post, I think it’s down to people expecting much more from a post than a quick tweet!

Therefore untill I decide otherwise I’m going to leave this site/page as is, anyone interested is encouraged to join Twitter and follow me! – www.Twitter.com/Roybott

follow Roybott at http://twitter.com

Microsoft Tag

Roybott — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:04:11 +0000

Back at CES in Early January Microsoft announced Microsoft Tag ( http://www.microsoft.com/tag ), since then I’ve been intending on trying it out but never got round to it. During the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona today more information on Microsoft Tag was announced so I finally decided to give it a shot.

I have to say I’m really impressed by how well, and quickly, my phone picks up the tag and directs me to the desired site (or other task). It seems to work really well on tags of all sizes, clarity and even on tags shown briefly in videos running on my pc! Obviously I had to try creating my own tag to try it out, so here it is…

Updated blog and retrofitted tags

Roybott — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:19:39 +0000

After updating from a very old version of WordPress I discovered that WordPress now has support for proper ‘Tags’, so I decided to go back and add them to all of my previous posts.

Retrofitting tags probably isn’t the best idea but at least now I wont have a period where my tag cloud (now added to the side bar on the left ) has only 2 things in it.

Everything back up and running…

Roybott — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:54:49 +0000

Well I’m sure absolutely no one had noticed but this blog/site/domain had been offline for a number of weeks (maybe a month). The Reason is that my hosting with Streamline.net was about to expire when I suddenly decided that I wanted to move to a different hosting provider, unfortuantly I didnt get the cancelation sorted out untill about 10 days before my renewal was due. This meant that I didnt meet Streamline.net’s 14 day cancelation period and so they wouldn’t allow me to cancel (more on this in a later post where I’ll complain about a few other things too!)

Anyway everything is back online now and I’m back at University for my final year!

My 360 back online

Roybott — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:03:22 +0000

My 360 is finally back from being repaired after I got the 3 Red Lights, its taken about 3 and a half weeks which isn’t too bad I guess. According to the attached letter my 360 had a problem with its DVD-Drive and Motherboard both of which were replaced, so I can’t really complain it was Free after all.

Very long time… No posts!

Roybott — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:25:14 +0000

Well its been about 2 months since I last posted… wow so much for keeping this going!

OK so ill try and sum up the last 2 months in as little writing as I can:

Got a nice new 32″ Samsung HDTV!
Opened a LoveFiLM account (which is AWESOME)
Went to Silicon Valley and San Francisco, California
Got some ‘Lucky Charms’
Got my Legendary Edition of Halo 3
Got RRoD (Red Ring of Death) on my 360

There is more but I can’t really think at this second… so I’ll post again if there is anything major I missed about the last 2 months and hopefully keep this blog a bit more up to date in the future!

Flexi-Time….

Roybott — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:51:17 +0000

…is the cleverest psychological ploy ever thought up by businesses. The idea is that you can go to work pretty much at whatever time you want and finish whenever too, as long as you get your work done nobody minds. why is it so clever? well I don’t know but, for some reason I cant really fathom, I’ve been working from before 9 everyday and finishing sometime after 6 (mostly closer to 7 and even as late as 8 on the odd occasions)! I find myself thinking “I’ll just finish this little bit and then head off” before I know it I’ve been working a lot more than people who are on strict time sheets. I’m not the only one, there’s pretty much always at least 1 person in my team (of 10) at work before me and there’s only been 2 occasions when Ive been joint last to leave!

I guess as long as you are enjoying what you are doing (like I do) it doesn’t really matter.

Back ONLINE!

Roybott — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:50:54 +0000

After being without Internet (at home anyway) for pretty much a month now, we have finally got it sorted! In the end we went with Virgin Media, while I’m pretty impressed with the speed (20 Mb/s) I wasn’t so impressed with the fact that we ordered it 3 weeks ago, a guy came out to “install” it 1 week ago and finally it has now been activated. By “Install” I literally do mean a guy came out and plugged the modem into an electrical socket for us… I’m guessing he didn’t expect we had a cable to our house already even though we said so a few times!

On a slightly different note, the previous two posts have been quick summaries of my first two weeks within MS, I wrote them like this as I haven’t had access to the Internet (at home anyway) during those weeks and so couldn’t write about events just as they happened. My intention for the future of this blog is to keep a record of any ‘key’ things that happen (either happen to me, or just things that happen that I deem interesting enough to comment on) rather than write about every little thing or every week that goes by.

A very short post

Roybott — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:44:50 +0000

Ive nearly finished my Second week at MS, well first ‘real’ week anyway! This is a short post because im typing it at work just before I leave and i dont really want to be blogging while at work…

Anyway, I dont have internet sorted at home (in Reading) yet and wont do untill a week on saturday now! But when thats sorted I will update here with some real posts about what I’ve been upto this week and last (and next)!